MARCH 2007
Music: Lou Harrison's puppet opera Young Caesar, February 16 (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) World premiere of classical composer Lou Harrison's 1971 puppet opera
Cinema: Michelangelo Antonioni, March 2 - April 22 (Pacific Film Archive) A retrospective of the masterpieces of a master of Italian cinema of the 1960s
Ballet: Eifman Ballet of St Petersburg, March 7 - March 11 (Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley) Boris Eifman has revolutionized the concept of classical dance in Russia by taking the art of ballet to its highest-and most modern-level of expressiveness.
Theatre: Woyzeck, March 9 - April 7 (Cutting Ball Theater, 277 Taylor st) Georg Buchner's "Woyzeck" has attracted artists for the past century. Austrian composer Alban Berg turned it into an opera in 1925. German director Werner Herzog filmed it in 1979 starring Klaus Kinski. Contemporary theatrical auteurs Richard Foreman, JoAnne Akalaitis and Robert Wilson have each directed their own version of it (Tom Waits contributed the music to Wilson's production).
Art: Ruth Asawa's sculpture, March 10 - May 26 (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) A retrospective of the wire sculptures that formed Asawa's visual vocabulary of looped and tied open forms
Philosophy/Music: Dalai Lama & Gyuto Monks of Tibet, March 14 (Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley) Representing a rich Buddhist tradition founded in 15th-century Tibet, the monks of the Gyuto Tantric University have been chanting in their multi-tonal style since 1474.
Ballet: Vincent Mantsoe, March 16 (Memorial Auditorium, Stanford) South African choreographer Vincent Mantsoe's "Men-Jaro" explores relationships between cultures and dance forms, infusing contemporary dance with traditional tribal movement, ritual, and music. Music by composer Anthony Caplan, performed live by the African Music Workshop Ensemble
Ballet: Carmen Carnes Dance Ensemble, March 24-25 (Cowell Theater, Fort Mason)
Carmen Carnes Dance Ensemble presents the world premiere of Myth and Machine and the audience favorite Circle, Cycle, Spiral and Stream. Carmen Carnes' choreography is known for blending Eastern and Western dance forms into a reverent and beautifully coherent kinesthetic story. Carnes recruited renowned moving sculpture artist Sha Sha Higby, boundary-pushing orchestra Gamelan Anak Swarasanti, celebrated visual designer Patty Anne Farrell, and award-winning poet Emily Kischell.
Ballet: Shen Wei Dance Arts, March 23-24 (Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley) This New York-based company was established at the American Dance Festival in 2000, and is fast emerging as one of the most compelling dance phenomenons of the 21st century. Fusing dance, theater, Chinese opera, painting, and sculpture, Shen Wei's extraordinary works incorporate original movement techniques, spiritual beliefs, and a unique blend of Western and Eastern cultures.
APRIL 2007
Ballet: LINES ballet, April 13-22 (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) This is the world premiere of San Francisco-based choreographer Alonzo King's new piece, a collaboration between a group of Shaolin monks and King's own LINES Ballet dancers that integrates Western ballet with the martial art kung fu developed by the Shaolin temple in China's Henan province.
Music: Dulce Pontes, April 20 (Palace of Fine Arts) Dulce Pontes is one of Portugal's most widely acclaimed fado singers. Her last album, Focus, a collection of songs by Italian composer Ennio Morricone, went gold in just one week.
Music: 541 Collective, April 22 (Stanford Univ) Avantgarde music by Stanford composers
Music: Group de Recherches Musicales, April 24 (Stanford Univ) Avantgarde music by French composers
Music: Shahid Parvez, April 25-27 (Sangati Center ) One of the leading exponents of the Imdadkhani or Etawah Gharana (a style created by Imdad Khan in the late 19th century that comes from one of the most ancient schools, the Gwalior Gharana), Shahid Parvez is widely considered one of the finest sitar players alive today.
Music: Gyuto Monks of Tibet, April 28 (Bill Graham Auditorium) Representing a rich Buddhist tradition founded in 15th-century Tibet, the monks of the Gyuto Tantric University have been chanting in their multi-tonal style since 1474.
Music: Jonathan Goldstein, April 29 (Stanford Univ) acob Druckman's "Reflections on the Nature of Water" (1986) for solo percussion
Cinema: San Francisco Film Festival, April 26 - May 10 (several San Francisco and Berkeley locations) Most important film festival in California
Music: Ravi Shankar, April 29 (Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley) Most famous living sitar player
Music: Rashid Khan, April 29 (Chabot College Performing Arts) One of the living masters of Hindustani (northern Indian) vocal music
Music: Konevets Quartet, April 30 (Old First Concerts) A program of Russian music, including Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky
MAY 2007
Music: Gyuto Monks of Tibet, May 5 (Stanford University) Representing a rich Buddhist tradition founded in 15th-century Tibet, the monks of the Gyuto Tantric University have been chanting in their multi-tonal style since 1474.
Cinema: Stanford Asian Festival, May 6 (Stanford Univ) Films by Zimou, Pan-seok Ahn and Isao Yukisada
Music: McCoy Tyner, May 6 (Herbst Theater) One of jazz's greatest living pianists.
History: Ancient Mayan Astronomy, May 8 (Stanford Univ) Anthropologist Tim King will introduce the world of Maya astronomy
Ballet: Smuin ballet, May 11-19 (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) Carmina Burana, Romeo & Juliet and two world premieres
Politics: Al Gore, May 12 (Nob Hill Masonic Center) "An Inconvenient Truth - Earth in the Balance"
Music: Angelique Kidjo, May 12 (Herbst Theater) Beninese vocalist and songwriter Kidjo has made the world her home, with a trilogy of albums exploring the African musical roots of America, Brazil, and the Caribbean.
Theater: San Francisco Arts Festival, May 16-27 (Yerba Buena Center and other venues) The 4th Annual San Francisco International Arts Festival boasts a score of performances and exhibitions in venues such as Dance Mission, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the International Airport, City Hall, the African American Art & Culture Complex, the Museum of the African Diaspora and Union Square. Shows include: Joanna Haigood's Zaccho Dance Theatre, the Hip-Hop Theatre Piece Representa! by Paul Flores and Linda Tillery & The Cultural Heritage Choir, globe-trotting Guinean nouveau cirque company, Circus Baobab performing their show "The Jumping Drums" at Project Artaud Theater.
Sport: Bay to Breakers, May 20 (San Francisco) San Francisco's annual foot race
Literature: Salman Rushdie, May 20 (Montalvo, Saratoga) One of the greatest living writers and an international hero
History: Recovering Afghanistan's Buddhist Past, May 24 (Stanford Univ) This talk describes recent Buddhist manuscript finds in Afghanistan and the new light they throw on Buddhism in Afghanistan in the first millennium C.E.
Music: Young composers and performers, May 25 (Old First Concerts) Hong Wang, huqin (strings); Wanpeng Guo, sheng (mouth organ); Xian Lu, dizi (bamboo flutes); Shenshen Zhang, pipa (Chinese lute); Gangqin Zhao, zheng (table harp); Yangqin Zhao, yangqin (hammer dulcimer); Bik Lee, electronics. Performing Chinese-inspired works by San Francisco composers.
Sport: Kinetic Sculpture Race, May 26-28 (Arcata) Kinetic sculpture racing is human-powered engineering and art whose vehicles are creative racing machines
Ballet: Smuin ballet, May 30 - June 3 (Mountain View Center for the Arts ) Carmina Burana, Romeo & Juliet and two world premieres
JUNE 2007
Art/science: Big Bang conference on New Media, June 2-3 (U.C. Berkeley)
Berkeley's New Media Festival will be a two-day academic conference,
augmented with a digital art exhibitions, social events and campus events.
One day will be devoted to the Berkeley
Center for New Media.
The other day will be hosted by Leonardo ISAST its three panels will focus on the interrelationship between art and science.
Science: 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth, June 5-9 (U.C. Berkeley) Digital Earth is a visionary concept for "spaceship Earth" sparked by Buckminster Fuller, for the virtual and 3-D representation of the Earth that is spatially referenced and interconnected with digital knowledge archives from around the planet with vast amounts of scientific, natural, and cultural information to describe and understand the Earth, its systems, and human activities.
Archeology: Zahi Hawass, June 6 (Herbst Theater) " The head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities discusses the the Royal Tombs of Egypt "
Dance: Ethnic Dance Festival, June 9-24 (Palace of Fine Arts) Cantonese-style lion dance by Leung's White Crane Lion and Dragon Dance Association, Parna Basu's Nritta Katha School of Kathak Dance, Theatre Flamenco, Middle Eastern belly dance "Shabnam", Philipino Folk Ensemble, Legong-style Balinese classical dance "Gadung Kasturi", Lalo Izquierdo's Afro-Peruvian dance and percussion work "De Rompe Y Raja", Tahitian dance "Hui Tama Nui", Arenas Dance Company, Korean dance "Hearan Chung", Ensambles Ballet Folklorico de San Francisco, Tajikistan dancer Tara Catherine Pandeya, Charya Burt Cambodian Dance Company, Tahitian dance "Te Mana O Te Ra", Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company, Arab folk dance Al Juthoor, Koraci Croatian Folklore Ensemble, Diamano Coura West African Dance Company.
Technology: Context Aware Computing, June 26 (Center for New Media) Computers that can recognize our looks, feelings, and actions to simplify how we work with them
JULY 2007
Music: Mozart Festival, July 6-22 (San Luis Obispo) One of the most important music festivals in California
Music: George Crumb's "Black Angels", July 13 (San Luis Obispo) Part of the Mozart Festival
Music: Schubert's "Death and the Maiden", July 13 (San Luis Obispo) Part of the Mozart Festival
Music: Ravel's Daphnis & Chloe, July 14 (San Luis Obispo) Part of the Mozart Festival
Music: Haydn's The Creation, July 22 (San Luis Obispo) Part of the Mozart Festival
Sport: Death Ride, July 14 (Reno) Tour of the California Alps
Festival: Garlic Festival, july 27-29 (Gilroy) The largest garlic festival in the world
AUGUST 2007
Photography: DeYoung Museum, July 7 - September 23 (Hiroshi Sugimoto) Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto is celebrated for his multiple series of black-and-white photographs that explore the themes of time, memory, dreams, and the history of representation.
Science: International Society for the Philosophy of Chemistry Symposium, August 5-9 (Univ of San Francisco) Free talks on a range of scientific and philosophical topics
Festival: Festival of the Chariots, August 19 (Golden Gate Park) The main Indian festival in California
SEPTEMBER 2007
Photography: DeYoung Museum, July 7 - September 23 (Hiroshi Sugimoto) Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto is celebrated for his multiple series of black-and-white photographs that explore the themes of time, memory, dreams, and the history of representation.
Music: Summer of Love, Sep 2 (Golden Gate Park) A celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love of 1967
Politics: Art, Technology and Culture colloquium with Trevor Paglen , Sep 17 (U.C. Berkeley) Geographer and artist Trevor Paglen takes the audience on a road trip through the world of hidden budgets, state secrets, covert military bases, and disappeared people: through a landscape that military and intelligence insiders call the "black world." Over the course of his talk, Paglen leads us from "non-existent" Air Force and CIA installations in the Nevada desert to secret prisons in Afghanistan and to a collection of even more obscure "black sites" startlingly close to home.
Theater: , September 14-15 (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) The Dutch multimedia theater ensemble performs a comic play of sort
Music: Brian Mitsuhiro Wong, Sep 16 (Old First Concerts) Compositions for koto
Art: Boundaries and Meaning in Landscapes - From Science to Art and Back , Sep 19 (Swissnex) A round-table discussion lead by Leonard Shlain to kick off the photographic exhibit "Minimal Landscapes" by Prof. Ariel Ruiz I Altaba
OCTOBER 2007
History: Roger Hahn et al, October 5-6 (Herbst Theater) Voltaire and the French Enlightenment
Music: Pharoah Sanders, October 17 (Grace Cathedral) One of the greastest living jazz saxophonists
Art: Unconventional Aerial Robotics, Oct 22 (Swissnex)
Art: Art, Technology and Culture colloquium with Geert Lovink , Oct 29 (U.C. Berkeley) New Media Art: In Search of the Cool Obscure
Art: RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA, Oct 24 - Dec 23 (Berkeley Art Museum) An exhibition that celebrates the remix as an artistic practice
Science: Wonderfest, Oct 27 (Hewlett Teaching Center, Stanford University) Free lectures on popular science
Science: Wonderfest, Oct 28 (Andersen Auditorium, UC Berkeley) Free lectures on popular science
Art: Art, Technology and Culture colloquium with Yael Kanarek , Oct 29 (U.C. Berkeley) New York artist
NOVEMBER 2007
Art: RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA, Oct 24 - Dec 23 (Berkeley Art Museum) An exhibition that celebrates the remix as an artistic practice
Music: Cypress String Quartet, November 4 (Villa Montalvo) Beethoven, Opus 131 in C# minor
Music: CCRMA Composers, November 9 (Stanford Univ) Avantgarde composers
Dance: Faustin Linyekula, November 8-10 (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts) The Congolese choreographer presents his piece "Festival of Lies" that deals with memory and the consequence of collective amnesia
Science: Lynn Robertson, Nov 14 (Axis Cafe) Free lectures on synesthesia
Music: Hans Tutschku, November 29 (Stanford CCRMA) Electroacoustic works
DECEMBER 2007
Music: Tallis Scholars, December 1 (Grace Cathedral) Works by Lheritier, Jean Mouton, Crecquillon, Josquin, and Gallus
Science: Wonderfest, Dec 12 (Axis Cafe) Free lectures on dark matter and dark energy
Art: RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA, Oct 24 - Dec 23 (Berkeley Art Museum) An exhibition that celebrates the remix as an artistic practice
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